Just joining in with the rest I'm sure. It's hard to put your thoughts out effectively when you are trying to keep up with everybody else. People in there need to slow down and compose themselves a bit more and actually post more than the first thing that comes to their head.

Exactly this.

The original idea was to get some quality, in-depth discussions on the show going, but at some point it turned into people just live-blogging what they were seeing on the screen.

Yeah, in addition to the 3DS and handheld games, I ended up donating an SNES, Mario World, A Link to the Past, and Super Metroid. Surprisingly, a bunch of the kids were already fans of Mario World, so quite a few of them ganged up together to play it.

The whole thing turned into a really awesome experience, and it's something that I think I'm going to be doing every year now.

Yeah, in addition to the 3DS and handheld games, I ended up donating an SNES, Mario World, A Link to the Past, and Super Metroid. Surprisingly, a bunch of the kids were already fans of Mario World, so quite a few of them ganged up together to play it.

The whole thing turned into a really awesome experience, and it's something that I think I'm going to be doing every year now.

That's good to hear. I might just do the same if the N64 fails to entertain me anymore. It'll be said to part with my Banjo Kazooie, ;_;, but if you found gratification in making others happy, I don't see why I can't do the same.

I am, too, so it's no big deal. That's just kind of what the thing turned into, and that wasn't the original intent. I thought instead of having a gazillion post-RAW threads we could try and corral it all into one hub of discussion, but then the whole thing got turned into Twitter: The Thread.

That's good to hear. I might just do the same if the N64 fails to entertain me anymore. It'll be said to part with my Banjo Kazooie, ;_;, but if you found gratification in making others happy, I don't see why I can't do the same.

I'm a hardcore collector- I think I've even posted some pictures of my game collection on here before- so I'm fortunate enough to be able to give stuff away and then still have back-ups of the things that I'm parting with. Not everyone is in that position, though, so I can totally understand the hesitance, especially with games that you really love (and, yes, the N64 Banjo games are the tits).

But if you ever do find yourself in a position to help some kids out who really need a lift, I think you'll find that satisfaction goes a long way towards filling the void of your missing stuff.